Code Reviewer Recommendation for Architecture Violation Issues: An Exploratory Study
Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for automatically recommending appropriate reviewers have been proposed to match such code changes to pertinent reviewers. However, such approaches are generic, i.e., they do not focus on specific types of issues during code reviews. In this paper, we propose an approach that focuses on architecture violations, one of the most critical type of issues identified during code review. Specifically, we aim at automating the recommendation of code reviewers, who are potentially qualified to review architecture violations, based on reviews of code changes. To this end, we selected three common similarity detection methods to measure the file path similarity of code commits and the semantic similarity of review comments. We conducted a series of experiments on finding the appropriate reviewers through evaluating and comparing these similarity detection methods in separate and combined ways with the baseline reviewer recommendation approach, RevFinder. The results show that the common similarity detection methods can produce acceptable performance scores and achieve a better performance than RevFinder. The sampling techniques used in recommending code reviewers can impact the performance of reviewer recommendation approaches. We also discuss the potential implications of our findings for both researchers and practitioners.
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10:30 - 12:00 | Software ArchitectureResearch (Full Papers) / Vision and Emerging Results / Short Papers and Posters / Industry at Aurora Hall Chair(s): Andrea Janes FHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences | ||
10:30 20mPaper | Impact of Architectural Smells on Software Performance Research (Full Papers) Francesca Arcelli Fontana University of Milano-Bicocca, Matteo Camilli Politecnico di Milano, Davide Rendina , Andrei Gabriel Taraboi , Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute Pre-print File Attached | ||
10:50 10mPaper | SoHist: A Tool for Managing Technical Debt through Retro Perspective Code AnalysisIndustry Experience Report Industry Benedikt Dornauer University of Innsbruck; University of Cologne, Michael Felderer German Aerospace Center (DLR), Johannes Weinzerl c.c.com Moser GmbH, 8074 Grambach, Austria, Mircea-Cristian Racasan c.c.com Moser GmbH, 8074 Grambach, Austria, Martin Hess Software AG, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany Pre-print File Attached | ||
11:00 20mPaper | Code Reviewer Recommendation for Architecture Violation Issues: An Exploratory Study Research (Full Papers) Ruiyin Li Wuhan University, China; University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Peng Liang Wuhan University, China, Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands Link to publication Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:20 10mPaper | Towards Human-Bot Collaborative Software Architecting with ChatGPT Vision and Emerging Results Aakash Ahmad School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Muhammad Waseem University of Jyväskylä, Peng Liang Wuhan University, China, Mahdi Fahmideh University of Southern Queensland, Mst Shamima Aktar School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Tommi Mikkonen University of Jyvaskyla Link to publication Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:30 20mPaper | Do Developers Benefit from Recommendations when Repairing Inconsistent Design Models? a Controlled Experiment Research (Full Papers) Luciano Marchezan Johannes Kepler University Linz, Wesley Assunção Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gabriela Karoline Michelon Johannes Kepler University Linz, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University Linz Link to publication DOI Pre-print File Attached | ||
11:50 10mShort-paper | Understanding the relationship between Technical Debt, New Code Cost and Rework Cost in Open-Source Software Projects: An Empirical StudyShort Paper Short Papers and Posters Judith Perera University of Auckland, Ewan Tempero University of Auckland, Yu-Cheng Tu The University of Auckland, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland Link to publication DOI Pre-print File Attached |